Local Health Boards and Medical Milk Commissions

Registration of medical students by medical boards.

Phase 3 of the study is currently under way. One hundred and twenty students from the University of Sydney are being tested at six different times across their final medical school year (Year 4) and the internship year. The core measurement tools have again been administered and, in addition, the General Health Questionnaire,4 the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE, ICD-10 mod...

Commissions, clubs, and consensus: Florida reorganizes for health reform.

This paper explores the political dynamics by which a health reform leader state--Florida--engineered an ambitious reorganization of state health agencies as an expected prelude to bolder policy measures before the end of 1994. Demographic and fiscal pressures spurred the state to action, but its success at innovation demands a political explanation. This narrative highlights Florida's patient ...

The impact of foundation-funded commissions on health policy.

Medical research oversight from the corporate governance perspective: comparing institutional review boards and corporate boards.

Gender and Piece Rates, Commissions, and Bonuses

Previous work shows that establishments with higher proportions of women are more likely to use piece rates hut that individual women are less likely to receive performance pay. We present a model in which lower expected tenure and labor force attachment are positively associated with piece rates but are negatively associated with other forms of performance pay. Analysis of the National Longitu...